Kimber has been politically active since the 1970s and went on his firstprotest march in 1975.[3] He is the editor ofSocialist Worker newspaper and has also written forInternational Socialism, the SWP's journal ofsocialist theory.[4] He is a director of Sherborne Publications Limited,[1] the company that publishes theSocialist Worker, having taken that position following the resignation ofMartin Smith as a director on 24 May 2013.[citation needed]
Kimber has published a number of political works, mostly published by the Socialist Workers Party. In May 2008, during the government of Gordon Brown and the2008 financial crisis, he producedPay Cuts, Recession and Resistance, which dealt, among other things, with acost of living crisis forworking people and asked "Do wage rises cause inflation?" Kimber argued that the idea of awage-price spiral was false as workers' pay rises were a secondary and lagging effect of inflation, not its cause. The cause of inflation, he asserted, was employers trying to maintain their profits in times of falling sales. Other topics covered in the publication include the gap between rich and poor and the need for socialist organisation in order to achieve an economy planned in everyone's interests.[5]
^Kimber, Charlie. (2008)Pay Cuts, Recession and Resistance. London: Socialist Workers Party, pp. 8-9. (With Simon Basketter and Yuri Prasad) ISBN 9781905192397
